Word: geller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...museum's rooftop restaurant or down the fire stairs. The fire's human toll: 30 firemen and visitors injured, one workman dead. Mute evidence of how bad the result might have been were the smudged, clawing finger marks left on a wall by Electrician Ruben Geller, 55, before he collapsed and died face down in 6 inches of water on the second floor...
...most liked Lawrence Kupferman's "Force That Drives the Water Through the Rocks," Boris Margo's "Evening" (see cut at lower left), Shan-Ching Toong's economical "Lobsters," and Paul Zimmerman's "November Moon." Alsc good were the works by Ruth Cobb, Esther Geller, Walter Meigs, Conger Metcalf, Arthur Polonsky and Sol Wilson...
...Geller, 57, who was president of New Haven Clock & Watch Co. from...
...Axler, Geller and friends paid $600,000 for 16.6% of Waltham's stock, almost exactly what Bellanca paid for it a year ago. They got a company with 483 employees, sales of $4.8 million in 1955 (down from $11.2 million in 1947), and earnings last year of $70,764 (just 4? per share). Axler hopes to win back Waltham's almost nonexistent consumer trade in the $39.75 to $125 watch market, also expand the industrial division (speedometers, gyroscopes, aircraft equipment) that now does 90% of Waltham's total business...
...Some people in all age groups like to set fires, but for different reasons, said the University of Southern California's Psychiatrist Stanley J. Geller. He concentrated on preadolescents (six to eleven), found that his 75 subjects were all boys. (The only female firebug he found was a girl of 14.) "Without fail," said Dr. Geller, "the marital relationship of the parents was unstable or really nonexistent. In 77% of the cases the real fathers were extremely hostile, aggressive men who frequently beat their children. In approximately half the children, enuresis [bedwetting] was an accompanying symptom." The Freudian explanation...